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    Species Accepted

    Dipsas vermiculata Peters, 1960

    Vermiculate Snail-eater

    Classification and descendants

    Source: Catalogue of Life

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      Vernacular names

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      4 results
      Cobra-caracoleira-vermiculada Portuguese
      Net-sneglesnog Danish
      Vermiculate Snail-eater English
      Червеобразный дипсас Russian

      Bibliography

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      13 results
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      Peters, J. A. (1960). The snakes of the subfamily Dipsadinae. Misc. Publ. Mus. Zool., Univ. Michigan (114): 224 Pp.
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      Torres-Carvajal O, Pazmiño-Otamendi G, Salazar-Valenzuela D. (2019). Reptiles of Ecuador: a resource-rich portal, with a dynamic checklist and photographic guides. Amphibian & Reptile Conservation 13 (1): [General Section]: 209–229 (E178).
      Reyes-Puig, C., Brito-Zapata, D., Guayasamin, J.M. et al. (2025). Diversity of amphibians and squamate reptiles in the upper Napo River basin, Ecuador. Community Ecology (2025).
      Harrington, Sean M; Jordyn M de Haan, Lindsey Shapiro, Sara Ruane. (2018). Habits and characteristics of arboreal snakes worldwide: arboreality constrains body size but does not affect lineage diversification. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 125 (1): 61–71.
      Vera-Pérez LE. (2020). Dipsas vermiculata Peters, 1960 (Squamata, Colubridae): first country record from Colombia, with description of its hemipenial morphology and comments on its distribution and diagnosis. Check List 16(3): 527-533.
      Arteaga, A., & Batista, A. (2023). A consolidated phylogeny of snail-eating snakes (Serpentes, Dipsadini), with the description of five new species from Colombia, Ecuador, and Panama. ZooKeys 1143: 1-49.

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